Hello people of murga-linux forum posts, I intend to install puppy arcade-10 in my pc which is a: via c7-m processor, 512 mb ram and 64 mb onboard video, and wireless device RTL8187B, and with a VIA VX800 chipset, but the puppy arcade-10 is not detecting my wireless device, I used the command

Code:

iwconfig

but it only detected the lan port for modem connection and wireless use is only because we have an agreement with our neighbors, and the like, I found super Interestingly puppy-arcade as well as puppy linux, but what I use is exactly the puppy-arcade10, so if anyone knows what I may be doing it for at least detect the wireless device, be grateful.
I await answers.

Puppy Arcade 10 has a very old kernel, 2.6.25.16, your problem is probably because the kernel is too old for your wifi hardware... You could change the kernel - see here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60180.... Or, you could get yourself an old, cheap USB wifi adapter (most Belkins work fine) and use that instead - you can pick up older usb wifi adapters very cheap on amazon and so on...

Or lastly, you could compile the firmware/drivers for your wifi device and see if that works... In order to compile stuff on Puppy you need to install the 'devx'.. and to compile drivers and such, you also need the 'kernel sources'...

The 'devx' and 'kernel sources' are in SFS files, and can be downloaded from here:

To compile the driver, unpack the archive, go into the folder, and open a terminal in that folder (in ROX, use the ` key, which left of the 1 key, to open a terminal), then type *something* like the following in the terminal window:

Sc0ttman Hello again, I followed your tips, eos pack files wifi drivers were compiled and installed corretamentes but to load any of the modules of the package even give RTL8187B error, and loaded modules with network wizard, but still not detected the wifi device I have, then ask if querialhe is it possible that I can upgrade to 2.6 for kernel 3.2 without affecting the system, because I have the puppy slacko with kernel 3.2 and usually it detects my network devices and even the SD card reader, so I leave a question, you can upgrade dekernel in puppy arcade-10, to go off and spend the kernel2.6 kernel 3.2?
I hope answers, Thanks anyway.

Puppy Arcade cannot run the 3.x kernel - you will need to do many changes... But you can change kernel to any other 2.6 kernel... But it is lots of work, but it gets easy after you did it once before...

Hi guys, I have that wireless adapter. I have found that I can usually just use ndiswrapper to get that adaper to work. If you don't have the windows xp driver, just let me know and I will post it. There is also a .pet for that adapter that works, but I have found that it sometimes loses connection, and you may have to keep reinstalling the .pet. Ndiswrapper OTOH never seems to fail as long as it works initially. Thanks, Rob